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Posted on: Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Diver was Army officer from Minnesota

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During his year in Iraq, Lt. Col. John Hennessey was photographed at Al Faw Palace in Baghdad, a former Saddam Hussein mansion.

Hennessey family photo

A man who died Sunday morning while scuba diving off Portlock was identified yesterday as John Hennessey of St. Paul, Minn.

Hennessey, 46, was an Army lieutenant colonel who returned from Iraq last week. He had deployed last June with the 322nd Civil Affairs Brigade, an Army Reserve unit based at Fort Shafter. Hennessey served with a multinational unit at Camp Victory in Baghdad.

Hennessey had planned to return home to his wife and family in St. Paul next week. Instead, on Thursday, his wife will fly to Honolulu to retrieve his body and attend a memorial service with his military comrades.